Wait, Whut?

No, Really. Become mean and green. Permanently hulk out. (unless you go blue through the judicial use of stealth boys.)

The downsides

-Prejudice, Loose relations with factions.

-The clothes you are wearing might rip

- Lady killer and black widow options might become more rare (or more comical)

- become infertile. Which is a shame because this game has baby generating technology.

- If you are female, you loose your briasts and become somewhat less feminine.

(though I'm sure that through improvements to the FEV virus, one might some of these issues)

The upsides

- Mad strength.

- Mad weight.

- Your health is multiplied.

- you get smarter

- Ignore radiation.

- Jump high

- Jump on enemies to kill them with your mad weight.

- Throw enemies, which are lighter by comparison

- Sprint through wooden doors, because the handle is for weaklings.

- Kill enemies by throwing them into hard things, dangerous heights, into fires, or sharp things.

- power fist people without actualy needing a powerfist.

- Wield heavy weapons like they're nothing. Dual wield Fat men.

- You could literaly rip people apart.

- and box death claws.

- you could build super power armour, for super people like yourself, which essentialy just really big and thick power armour. You're like the mountain. You're invincible. (disclaimer; super-mutants may or may not be immune to poison)

-Stealth boys will make you blue. Who doesn't want to be blue?

But seriously, from a gameplay perspective, being a supermutant would be incredibly fun.

That sounds absolutely absurd to be honest.

Fallout tends to bleed absurd.

Make it stop,make it stop

From every other perspective it would be incredibly tacky.

There are also much more downsides to being a supermutant than your aesthetics, and personal standing

Stealth boys also don't just turn a mutant blue, and hardly makes them any more intelligent.

You don't get smarter, you get stupider
Never seen a Super Mutant jump high
Building yourself a set of SM Power Armor is ridiculous

Won't happen, simply because, like ghouls, most of the main story and side quests, would be cutoff to you. /Thread

- If you are female, you loose your briasts and become somewhat less feminine. There are no Genders, you lose whatever you once were. Tabitha is just a confused Super Mutant there is nothing to prove that it was once a she.

(though I'm sure that through improvements to the FEV virus, one might some of these issues)

The upsides
- Mad strength.
- Mad weight.
- Your health is multiplied.
- you get smarter No. You don't Often one stays the same intellectually and that is the good Vault Dwellers. The Vault 87 strain has a dumbing effect which means East Coast Super Mutants on average are dumb, not stupid but not nearly as smart as they once were.
- Ignore radiation.

That's pretty much it.

And we need to keep in mind it's still a RPG. This isn't The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction.

Isn't it a sandbox FPS now?

Heh, honestly, who knows. But I like to hope it's still a RPG.

I'd like the option to become one, especially if I'm immune to radiation and stronger.

Short answer: No.

Erm...so Fallout: Hulk Edition?

No thanks...I'd like to be able to play as a ghoul though.

http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/wfwtf.gif

Open world does not mean sandbox. A true sandbox game would allow you to alter the story or create a new story. There are very few true sandbox games in existence.

Fallout is just as much a theme park game as it has ever been. They have added some sandbox elements to it, but it is still very much a theme park.

Fallout is a theme park RPG that can be played as a FPS and has some sandbox elements.

No. Just no.

Being turned into a super android would be better, you'd look the exact same while still getting mad strength and immunity to rads.

I'd rather be Frank Horrigan.

For a mod, sure. I just downloaded a mod for Fallout-3 based on Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman which makes my character grow as she is affected by radiation. The screenshots I saw of the mod i action looked hilarious. Obviously non "canon" but then it's not supposed to be: it's a fun mod to an old, old game that makes me still want to play it.